In the spring of 1945, the U.S. launched its largest Pacific campaign, sending 1,500 ships and half a million men to seize ...

Okinawa has had a tumultuous history and a scattered identity throughout the twentieth century. As a Japanese territory before World War II, Okinawans did not ever fully adopted Japanese culture ...

Kunitake Toriya was preparing to embark on a kamikaze suicide attack mission against Allied forces during the Battle of ...

The town of Nishihara, at the center of Okinawa Island, lost half of its residents in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. Yoshiko Goya, 88, who was born in the town’s Kohatsu area — the site of fierce ...

Sadamitsu Ushijima, grandson of Lt. Gen. Mitsuru Ushijima (1887-1945), who led the 32nd Army, said the underground complex in Shuri is related not just to Okinawa but also with all of Japan.

In 1945, few had ever heard of Okinawa, but control of that island was critical to the success of Operation Downfall, the operational code name for the invasion of Imperial Japan.

Amid the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end comes the death of what is believed to be America’s last surviving ace, Don ...

The severity of the Battle of Okinawa is clear from the heavy casualties, as described in the book The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945 - The Last Epic Struggle of World War II, by US writer Bill Sloan.

Nearly a third of the Okinawan civilian population is believed to have died in the 1945 fighting. But the count varies from 90,000 by the Okinawa state government to 150,000 by historians.

A high school group that held a workshop for junior high school students aims to bring a new approach to peace education by ...

Okinawa was declared secured on June 21, 1945, 70 years ago today. The Old Breed was ordered to Yontan in the north of Okinawa where they received replacements. The 1st Marines were assigned to ...